August 2013 Grocery Challenge

Sequeena

£5.58 spend today. Up to £221.93/£250. Will definitely overspend as I need to stock up on dog food.

irinaE

Challenge completed! New arrival in the family this month as well, so we are 4 never alone again in my life, life is good! :T

Thank you for a lovely community :cool:

JJ bread it is goooood!:D

I will join in October again !

Peggybabcot

If any of you shop at Sainsburys and use the shopitize app they'll give you £1 cash back on Sharwoods sweet & sour sauce or black bean sauce. The good thing is that Sainsburys have it on offer for £1 until 10/9/13 so essentially free (unless like me you have a staff discount card and it costs 90p so they're paying me to take it away lol)
Notice how I'm avoiding admitting my grocery challenge updates??? Oh what a farce Baring in mind I set a target of £400 as a guesstimate I was obviously way off the mark. On the plus side, the only way is down hopefully? *hangs head in shame* I'm off to update my signature. We shouldn't need much else before pay day on Friday but its still WAY over. I must try better (and leave husbands and children at home when I do go shopping)
Jules x
Edit to say I don't have multiple husbands, just the one, thank the Lord!

xx_Jo_xx

£33.08

£29.84 in Ald! (Some of this was on non-grocery items such as homework books and other bits and bobs.)

£3.24 left...

My month still runs until the 9th, but I'm pleased I'm not gonna be toooooo far off my budget! We don't need too much in, apart from fruit milk and yogurts as always, and that will be nearer the end of the week!

Sequeena

£45.55 spent today taking my total to £267.48. Damn. I really needed to stock up on pet food though.

Peggybabcot

Going to declare £596.84/£400 for August's GC. This was my first attempt and as I picked the figure out of thin air I'm not surprised we were over as looking back now we spent about £680 the month before so we've saved by that figure if not the GC target I set originally. I'll pop over to the September challenge but I think I'll up my budget but try and stay below what we spent this month.

Sequeena

Declaring this month's spend as £267.48/£250. Moving over to the September thread now

Sligo

Declaring at €713.67/€750!!!

But that was grocery shopping and there was a couple of of eating out splurges in August!

Still it was on target and I'm not complaining. I'll claim it as a success! :T Over to join September!

elly68

well aimed for 400 but nearer 500 will try harder this month although have lots of food in cupboard but have started the horrible chucking food out again ,madness need to be better at freezing food or just not buying it .